My wife declined the Hepatitis B vaccine for my newborn. We argued about it. I’m scared to death of making the wrong decision. I’m asking for help, what do you guys think is appropriate for newborn vaccines? The nurse came to our house and told us if we didn’t get the vaccines they wouldn’t work with us anymore. I brought up autism and she said that the person who came out with that lost their medical license and there are ZERO negative side effects for the Hep B vax. Exact words.
It was a long and hard pregnancy. My wife has had trauma in her past and refused any meds (which I was conflicted about because it was a nightmare to live through) and now she may be suffering from post-partem depression. She is way more anti-vax than I am, hates hospitals and doctors after what has happened, and I can’t blame her. Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.
The Miller-Goldman study clearly shows that countries that vaccinate their children more have higher infant mortality rates and countries that vaccinate their children less have lower infant mortality rates.
Unfortunately, there are no useful data regarding infant mortality for large populations of completely unvaccinated children, so it's at least possible that there is some optimal amount of vaccinations which is small but not zero. But since we don't have any hard data to go on other than the trend lines showing less is invariably better, the clearly safest choice is not to vaccinate at all.
Keep in mind in many countries what are considered “viable” infants is different. Many countries if a kid is under 2lbs they won’t even try to save it. But they won’t consider it under infant mortality because it was considered nonviable.